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Vacancy: Associate Professor in Education, UWE BristolCloses 12 April 2019
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UWE Bristol is an ambitious university. Together, our people are working hard to advance knowledge, inspire people and transform futures. We are looking for people with the skills and ambition to help us achieve those aims.
The Department for Education and Childhood offers a range of programmes in Childhood, Education, Initial Teacher Education, and Professional Development at undergraduate and postgraduate level and doctoral study. These are thriving courses and partnership with a wide range of educational and cultural organisations are key to these.
The department is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor Education. This I-grade post is part of a drive to continue to increase research leadership and capacity in the department. An ability to take the lead in further developing the department's expertise in successful research bidding and external grant capture is key to this role. Research and teaching expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, data collection and data analysis is essential. As an Associate Professor, you will contribute to the leadership and support of others in developing research in the department. You will work with colleagues across the faculty and university, and with partners, as part of a wider contribution to research and knowledge exchange.
Acting as an integral member of the newly formed research group in the department, BRIDGE, and taking a lead in expanding our inter-disciplinary approach to research, is an expectation of this role. You will have a doctoral level qualification and high quality research outputs in a subject area highly relevant to the work of the department and you will seek links between departments and faculties for publication and bidding purposes.
Your contribution to the design and delivery of teaching in one or more of our programmes will also be a highly valued aspect of this role as will expertise and knowledge of one or more of our key cross-programme themes such as: social justice, researching with children and young people, digital learning, and global and sustainable education.
Your contribution to doctoral supervision and teaching will also be a highly valued aspect of this role.
In addition to progressive pay rates, UWE Bristol offers a wide range of staff benefits including:
• a generous holiday allowance of 35 Days
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year in addition;
• flexible working;
• excellent defined benefit pension schemes;
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme;
• family friendly policies;
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus;
Please see the attached full job description and information for applicants for the role.
If you have any queries or would like an informal discussion, please contact Helen Bovill, Associate Head of Department Research, firstname.lastname@example.com or Mandy Lee, Head of Department, email@example.com.
Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 6 May.
UWE is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who share our ambition to be a university recognised for the success and impact of our practice-oriented programmes; our strong industry networks and our inclusive global outlook.
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David Cameron announced the creation of nearly 10,000 new jobs as he continued a four-day tour of businesses across the country, but admitted it will "take time" before the benefits of economic growth are felt by families.
The Prime Minister's message was dealt a blow by the announcement by UK Coal of plans which could cost 1,300 jobs with the closure of two of Britain's three remaining deep-pit coal mines.
Mr Cameron promised the Government would do "everything we can" to help preserve jobs at the pits in Kellingley, North Yorkshire, which employs 700 people, and Thoresby in Nottinghamshire, which employs 600.
He confirmed talks were under way with the company over possible bridging finance, but acknowledged that he was "limited" in the amount of assistance he could provide using taxpayers' money.
The Prime Minister was today visiting Manchester, Birmingham, and Newbury in Berkshire, to highlight job creation and the rise in the level of the personal tax allowance to £10,000, which comes into effect this weekend.
Speaking on BBC1's Breakfast, he acknowledged that many households have yet to feel the impact of an economic recovery which he said had so far been characterised by job creation rather than real rises in wages.
"The truth of the matter is this - the British economy is improving. We have got 1.3 million more people in work, we have got more businesses in our country. That is good news.
"But we are recovering from a long, deep and difficult recession, and it does take time before people really feel the effects of an economic recovery.
"We have seen this recovery so far come in jobs and more people getting into work, rather than in an increase in wages. I think over time wages will increase. We are helping people by cutting their taxes, so this week you can earn £10,000 a year before you start paying income tax.
"But if your question is, 'Does it take time for people to really feel a recovery?', yes, of course it does. All the more reason for sticking to our long-term economic plan and not going back to the bad old days of more borrowing, more spending and more debt."
Birmingham Airport accounts for the bulk of the new posts being announced, with 4,000 jobs on site and the same amount in the supply chain, as a result of a revamp that includes a £40 million extended runway due to be operational next month.
Communications giant Vodafone is taking on an extra 1,400 staff while Accenture, a glob al management consulting firm, is taking on around 2,000 this year, with 500 posts still to be filled.
The announcements will provide a boost to the Prime Minister as he attempts to explain the measures unveiled in last month's Budget during his "economy-focused" tour that started yesterday at a branch of John Lewis in Greater Manchester.
In an appearance on the sofa at the BBC's Salford studios, he said: "Today, I am travelling round the country highlighting the fact that there are jobs coming in this economy. I am going to be in Accenture here in the North West straight after this, where they are creating 2,000 jobs this year.
"I am going to Birmingham, where the extension of the airport is creating 4,000 jobs, then going to be in Newbury, where Vodafone are creating over 1,000 jobs.
"This is all part of a picture of Britain competing and succeeding."
Mr Cameron will hold a PM Direct - a question and answer format with small audiences he started while leader of the opposition - with workers he meets today to press home the changes to corporate and personal finance he has pushed through.
The PM will insist that business tax reforms that are coming into force will help firms hire more people and claim that the jobs announcements are further proof that the coalition's economic plan is working, and will highlight reforms to the employment allowance that the Government says will give 1.25 million businesses and charities up to £2,000 off their national insurance contributions.
He said that changes to the personal tax allowance - which the Government says are helping 26 million people, including three million taken out of income tax altogether - represented "a very big change for our country".
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said: "Every new job is welcome, but under David Cameron long-term youth unemployment has doubled and working people are facing a cost-of-living crisis are £1,600 a year worse off.
"High levels of youth unemployment are wasting the skills and talents of our young people and costing taxpayers £330 million every year.
"The Prime Minister must do much more to tackle the high levels of youth unemployment across the country by implementing Labour's compulsory jobs guarantee to get the long-term unemployed off benefits and into work."

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JPL Open House
JPL's Open House is a free event and open to the public. Models and robots are on display, and scientists and engineers are on hand for questions.
Transcript:Title: One weekend a year, NASA's JPL opens its doors to space exploration enthusiasts of all ages...
Title: For two days...
...more than 200 scientists and engineers...
...present live demonstrations...
...of today's most exciting space missions.
Title: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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The Open House Series
Title: Why
Title: At JPL, we strive to be a symbol of hope for what human beings are capable of imagining and bringing to reality.
Title: What happens when creative and scientific people come together with a common mission and make it happen?
Title: Why did you become a scientist?
Tracy Drain, Flight Engineer, Kepler I have always been interested in space since I was a little kid. The first time I found out about how the solar system was formed I was kind of astonished to know that people can figure that out even though it happened so long ago.
Tony Freeman, Program Manager, Earth Science Research and Advanced Concepts I read a lot of science fiction when I was a kid; I think I always wanted to be a scientist as a result.
Michelle Thaller, Astrophysicist/Outreach Scientists, Spitzer Space Telescope I saw Star Wars when I was seven years old there was no turning back. The imagination of science inspired by science fiction, what else could I do with my life?
Nagin Cox, JPL Systems Engineer I got interested in Star Trek for a little while and it just dawned upon me that I didn't have to focus on science fiction, there was science fact.
Title: Why did you come here today?
I wanted my son to be able to experience what JPL was all about.
It is a wonderful place to come and expose your children to science and how science is applied and why are they studying math.
I really like space and astronomy and stuff like that.
We wanted to see the new technology and space stuff and robots.
Title: What did you learn?
We learned about the technology that we are using today with the Mars rover and the Cassini and things like that.
It was really cool that the scientist would talk to us about how it works and I would actually understand it.
It really gives you an idea about how everything is going to go on in the solar system and planets.
I learned how robots are made and everything.
Title: How do you get kids interested in science?
David Crisp, Principal Investigator, Orbiting Carbon Observatory Sometimes the easiest way to get kids excited about science is to show excitement with science.
...you can see light out of the infrared...
Jo Pitesky, PlanetQuest Scientists and Cassini Science Planner I think to be interested in science you just have to be interested in the world. Being interested in science doesn't mean that you are good at math necessarily. Being interested in science means you are good at asking questions.
When I see the younger kids of today reminds me of myself being a child learning about the solar system and the level of excitement that I had and I really love being a part of telling them about it and watching them for the first time become excited about the solar system and what we know about space.
Rich Zurek, JPL's Chief Scientists for Mars Exploration Every kid is an explorer, as they grow they learn, they are exploring their world.
I was thinking about being maybe a rocket engineer.
I want to be a scientist when I grow up.
Title: What's the coolest thing you saw here today?
I think the robots are really cool.
The RoboDome, that was a lot of fun.
I like the camera one where you put ice on your hand and it turns black.
It's amazing! They have all these robots, all of this other stuff about the solar system, it's an amazing place.
What's the most beautiful planet of all?
...Saturn and Earth
Title: Why is this important?
We see things that people dreamed about years ago and have now become reality.
Jim Fanson, Project Manager, Kepler
It allows us to understand fundamental questions about how we fit into the cosmos, where we came from, where we are headed.
We are just finding planets around other stars; I think we are going to find life hopefully in the next 10 years maybe on Mars maybe on a moon of Jupiter.
Jim Erickson, Project Manager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Looking at other planets helps you understand your own planet.
The idea that you can go out and you have a whole planet to explore or you can find new planets. I think that it self is very compelling to youngsters today just as it was 40 years ago when I was thinking about these things as a youngster.
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In 1956, shortly after her (doomed) marriage to Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe headed across the pond to film "The Princess and the Showgirl" opposite the great Sir Laurence Olivier, each hoping a little of the other's magic would rub off on them. It was during this time that Monroe spent a week with a young director's assistant, Colin Clark, stealing furtive kisses and sharing a bed on one occasion. As luck would have, Mr. Clark kept a diary, which he would later turn into a pair of memoirs.
"My Week With Marilyn," based on Clark's books "The Prince, The Showgirl and Me: The Colin Clark Diaries" and "My Week With Marilyn," stars Michelle Williams as the titular sex goddess, Eddie Redmayne as Clark, and the great Kenneth Branagh as Olivier—really, who else alive could take that role?
First things first—Williams makes an amazing transformation, beautifully capturing Monroe's childlike effervescence and drugged-addled confusion. Her body type is all wrong, and they look alike in only the most rudimentary sense, but with a pout or bite of a finger, and her breathy voice, Williams makes you forget all that.
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But it's Redmayne who's actually the star of the film, not that he outclasses Williams, but this is a story about Clark's time with Monroe, not Monroe's' time with Clark. Redmayne, too, is fantastic as Clark, a young wide-eyed fanboy eager to please and make his way in showbiz.
The leads are great, as is the supporting cast—Branagh, Judy Dench, Julia Ormond—and Simon Curtis has a strong eye in the director's chair, but it's the story that is the demise of "My Week With Marilyn." It's impossible to tell whether it's the fault of Curtis or screenwriter Adrian Hodges, or if the real story was simply not that compelling.
Clark was surely one of hundreds (thousands?) of men who, for however briefly, thought they had a shot at bedding Monroe. This is not to suggest that Monroe was a roundheel, rather her lack of guile and duplicity no doubt confused many, many men. But it's never made clear to us what's special about Clark's encounter with her.
The most intriguing part of the "Week" is Monroe's relationship with acting coach Paula Strasberg (Zoe Wannamaker), who was controlling and enabling to the point of suffocating the star. Now that's a story that would be worth telling.
With not much new to tell us about Monroe or ourselves, "My Week With Marilyn" plays out like a well-told story with no third act.
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Nominations are now open for the 2012 Champions of the Earth -- the United Nations' flagship environment award that recognizes outstanding visionaries and leaders in the fields of policy, science, entrepreneurship and civil society action.
The Award, which is organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), seeks to honour men and women whose actions and leadership have made a positive impact on the environment.
Whether by helping to improve the management of natural resources, demonstrating new ways to tackle climate change or raising awareness of emerging environmental challenges, Champions of the Earth should serve as an inspiration for transformative action across the world. Past laureates have included Mikhail Gorbachev, Al Gore, Felipe Calderon, Mohamed Nasheed, Marina Silva, Vinod Khosla, and many other such exemplary leaders on the environment and development front.
The Champions of the Earth laureates are invited to accept their award at an international ceremony, which publicizes and encourages the worldwide replication of their achievements.
Next year's award ceremony comes in the run up to Rio+20 or two decades after the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 that established treaties on biodiversity, climate change and land desertification and set the course for contemporary sustainable development. It also comes 40 years after the Stockholm Conference that established the UN Environment Program (UNEP).Members of the public can now nominate a candidate who they believe is a true champion of green development. Nominations will be accepted until October 31, 2011.
H.E Felipe Calderon, Mexico
Champions of the Earth Laureate, 2011 - Policy Leadership
"There is a clear way in which we can fight climate change and at the same time fight extreme poverty in our countries. And the answer to that is the green economy."
Past laureates: http://www.unep.org/champions/laureates/2011/
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Bagpipers march in the 252st Annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York, on March 16, 2013.
With bagpipes galore and plenty of Guinness, Irish-American revelers – and their less lucky non-Irish counterparts – celebrated St. Patrick's Day with parades across the country on Saturday.
"This is the mother of all St. Patrick's Day parades," said Dani O'Connell of New Jersey, who joined the shamrock-wearing masses along New York's Fifth Avenue. "I've got my St. Patrick's Day parade hat. It's about getting all dressed up and goofy and having fun – without or without the booze."
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David Westerby of Kenosa, Wis. left, yells during the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, on Saturday.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny marched alongside New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as crowds packed the route of the 252nd annual parade, and presented Bloomberg with a traditional Irish teapot.
"The Irish are found in every borough, every corner of New York," Kenny said at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast, NBC New York reported. "In previous generations, they came heartbroken and hungry, in search of new life, new hope. Today they come in search of opportunity to work in finance, fashion, film."
New York's festivities put those in the old country to shame, said Ewan Armstrong, who was visiting from London.
"I'm really digging the bagpipes," said Armstrong, 23.
Green-clad lads and lasses in Chicago bundled up for their city's parade as temperatures hovered in the mid-thirties – but it would take more than that to keep Chicago Journeyman Plumbers from their annual rite dyeing the Chicago River a radiant jade, NBC Chicago reported.
Of course, St. Patrick's Day does not properly start until Sunday, when Boston will hold its annual parade.
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Let them rent mansions: Compensation for disaster victims will barely make a difference
For seven weeks now people from all over the world have been donating money to various charities to help the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. According to NHK's morning consumer affairs show, "Asaichi," as of April 25 ¥1.7 billion had been collected by Japan Red Cross and other charity organizations. After going through four stages of bureaucratic processing the money was supposed to start reaching victims on April 27. In the first wave of payments, affected households would receive ¥350,000 for each family member who died or is declared missing. If the family completely lost its home in the disaster, it would receive an additional ¥350,000. If the home was partially destroyed, the amount would be ¥180,000. Families who have been evacuated from the area surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor receive ¥350,000.
That cash will certainly help, but as explained in an earlier post the burden of rebuilding shattered lives mainly falls on the central government, which will only compensate homeowners and businesses by so much. And as explained in another post, earthquake insurance, like supplemental medical insurance, is not designed to cover entire losses. Basically, benefits provide a little extra money, something to live off of while a homeowner or business owner decides whether or not he wants to go through the grueling process of starting over from scratch, which means borrowing money. NHK interviewed a Sendai family whose 4-year-old home was spared from the tsunami but nevertheless condemned by the local government because the landfill under it had subsided to the point where the foundation was at risk. They still owe more than ¥20 million on their 30-year mortgage and though they have earthquake insurance the benefits will cover, at most, only half the balance; which means they have to come up with the other half of the loan themselves. Then, presumably, they have to take out a new loan if they want to buy a new house. According to one financial planner on the show, they'd be better off renting, "but, of course there are financial disadvantages to renting," she added. Obviously, in this case, there are even bigger disadvantages in owning.


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- Chop the vegetables.
- Go downstairs and clean your bed.
- After the cutscene go back upstairs and talk to Doris.
- Go back downstairs and search the bookcase by the stairs.
- Search behind the boiler.
- Search the drapes by the bed.
- Investigate Dave's spellbook.
- Investigate it again and teleport to the Makeover Mage.
Making a withdrawal
- Talk to one of the bankers and withdraw the law rune, stew, and old rug from your "bank".
- Talk to a Grand Exchange clerk.
- Drink the stew and fill the flask from the water fountain south-east of the Grand Exchange.
- Go back to the clerk and give him the water flask.
Double trouble
- Teleport to the makeover mage and ask to turn into a girl.
- After you teleport back, talk to Doris.
- Redo the following chores.
- Sweep the rug.
- Wash the dishes.
- Chop the vegetables.
- Open the door and go north to the general store.
- Trade the shopkeeper to get all the repaired supplies.
- Redo all the chores again.
- Sweep the rug.
- Wash the dishes.
- Chop the vegetables.
- Go downstairs and clean your bed.
- Talk to Doris.
- Open the door.
Sneaking in
- Search the suit of armour for a knight's helmet.
- Search the crates for some gunpowder.
- Use the gunpowder on the helmet.
- Pickup the hand-written note and use it on the helmet.
- Use the helmet with fuse on the torch on the wall.
- Get close to the guard and throw the lit decoy bomb.
- Sneak past the guards (the easiest way is to go past them once the second guard turns east).
- Give Sir Amik the drink he requests 5 times. If you have trouble completing this part, take a drink, drop it, take one again and before the time runs out use loot area to grab them; you will be able to stack the drinks hence having more chance to complete this part.
- Talk to Doris.
Busted again
- Redo your chores again
- Sweep the rug
- Wash the dishes
- Chop the vegetables
- Go downstairs and clean your bed
- Talk to Felicity or Margaret the hellrats.
- Recruit any 3 of the other hellrats.
- Climb up the stairs to get to Shantay Pass.
- Talk to Shantay.
- Shake the coconut tree and pick up a coconut.
- Use the coconut on Shantay.
- Add a hellrat to the empty shell.
- Climb up the rope on the wall by the guards and throw the shell-rat.
- Open the Jail door and hand the Shady man the coconut drink.
- Talk to him to receive a jewel.
- Talk to the border guards to exchange the jewel for a rope.
- Use the rope on the coconut tree.
- Search the barrel inside of the jail cell to take one, and add a hellrat to it.
- Use the old rug (from your bank) on the barrel.
- Roll the barrel past shantay pass.
- Talk to Shantay.
- Reach your hand in the Kalphite holes until you find a scroll.
- As a hellrat, enter the sparkling holes.
- Attempt to enter the mysterious entrance as a hellrat.
- Enter the mysterious entrance.
- Grab Dave from the empty cooking range.
- Go to your bed.
- Attempt to climb up the stairs.
- Attempt to clean your bed.
- Gather 5 hellrats.
Finishing up
- Talk to Doris.
- Quest complete!
- 2 quest points
- 50,000 Magic XP lamp
- 20,000 Herblore XP lamp
- 20,000 Agility XP lamp
- 20,000 Cooking XP lamp
- Ability to catch Hell-Rats bare handed.
- Eating spicy stew has a better chance to give positive stats and is guaranteed to boost stats by 2-6 levels.
- Ability to chip teleport tablets to alternate teleport destination by using the tablet on Dave's spellbook.
- 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
- Music unlocked
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Twins Tegan and Sara have never won a Juno Award before despite five nominations, but it is possible to spot a silver lining in that goldless run.
"If we won, we would feel really delighted — but there's also this reflex in me that's always been afraid to win," said the consistently amiable Sara Quin in a recent telephone interview.
"It feels like (if) we won, people would be like: 'What?! THEY won? Oh Goddd. I can't believe they beat so and so.'
"That always stresses me out. Sometimes it's just better to be nominated."
So they have been, in four categories this time around at this weekend's Juno Awards, for the sleek-and-chic pop makeover "Heartthrob." And in prestigious categories no less: single, group, songwriter and pop album of the year.
That last one particularly speaks to the esthetic transformation undertaken by the 33-year-old sisters who split their time between New York (where Sara now lives) and Vancouver (where Tegan resides). In years past, they were near-exclusively nominated for alternative album of the year. They lost, on three occasions, to bands that Quin refers to as "heavy hitters" and "really cherished": Arcade Fire (in 2008), Metric (in 2010) and Broken Social Scene (in 2006).
The duo began — 15 years ago now — with a trio of full-lengths that peddled folk-pop occasionally imbued with gusts of emo rage. Then beginning with 2004's smart So Jealous, the Quins infused those torrents of punk energy with increasing degrees of melodic mastery, a trend that continued through 2007's melancholy The Con and 2009's punchy Sainthood.
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They weren't used to singing other people's songs or auditioning, both of which were necessities here. Still, they apparently aced their tryout take and, in collaboration with producer (and Devo co-founder) Mark Mothersbaugh and comedy-rap outfit the Lonely Island, recorded the chirpy hit that appears prominently in the smash film.
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"On Google for example, (many) people are searching 'Tegan and Sara' with very interesting spellings and then 'Everything is Awesome.' (So) there's people searching. But does that translate into them going: 'Oh, this band has seven records and 15 years in the industry?' I don't know.
"I think a lot of the people who are really big into the song are under the age of 10 ... so I don't know if they're going: 'I'm eight, I'm really into this music, let's find more!' I'm not sure if that's how kids work these days."
The song is, however, giving the sisters a helpful new calling card.
"Four months ago, when I was trying to explain to the average person at a radio station, who are you? 'Well, we're the people that sing "Closer."' Now we can actually say ... 'we sang Everything is Awesome.' And they go, 'Oh yeah, my kids love that movie!' So we can say our band did that and here's our next single."
It's not lost on the Quins how far they've come since beginning their careers as adolescent hopefuls, whose act might have exuded an unfortunate whiff of novelty.
Sara remembers the band's humble roots, schlepping to gigs in a Greyhound bus or a car, something she "would never do" again. She's glad they graduated from that stage as they transitioned out of their teens, though she says she didn't begin to feel comfortable in their career until their mid-20s.
Reflecting on the Juno nominations, Quin says she didn't think this level of recognition was possible — and, with piercing self-awareness, immediately clarifies that she doesn't mean it in a "stupid, humble" way.
"But we were just talking about this with one of our high school friends," she continued. "We did not probably seem like we had a lot of potential in high school. I mean, we worked and we volunteered and we got average grades and there were certain teachers I think who really liked us ... but we weren't standouts.
"We were never really good at piano, and people didn't hear us play the first time and go: 'Oh my God, send them to Nashville.' We were gross and trashy and we played punk music. But we had a tenacity and an ambition. There was something there."
"But to be at this point now, wow. We really are just adults with a career. It's very strange."
But it's no accident.
For some reason, ambition in musicians is often equated with desperation or a lack of artistic principle. Many bands cultivate a careful apathy about commercial success, insisting publicly that increased sales must arrive as a sort of happy fluke.
The Quins are different, and make no apologies for their chart aspirations or for the way they channel their dogged work ethic toward expanding their already impressive following.
Their last four albums have been certified gold in Canada. Still, the Quins aim higher.
"The one thing that never stops is the anxiety and the stress and the desire to have more and to sustain," Sara said. "There's a sense that ... if we're not out for 250-300 days a year, people will just forget about us. I know there's a slightly hysterical, almost hyperbolic sense when I say that. I realize how irrational that might be.
"But then on the other hand, people will come up to us and say: 'I used to know about your band in the early 2000s, so did you guys just stop for a while? We're hearing about you all over again.' I'm like, oh my God! All we've done is work for 10 years! They forget to think about you for a while."
"I'm not embarrassed of being ambitious," she continued. "Because in a weird way I think it's almost as important sometimes as having talent. ... I think I've realized that the kind of band that we are, is always going to mean probably working really hard."
It's not a shock, then, that the Quins are already pondering a follow-up to Heartthrob.
The sisters recently linked up in New York. Sara tossed on some electronic music in the car, and Tegan teased her: "Put something on with melody. Why are you making us listen to this?" Sara responded that her sister had better get used to the sound — it would inspire their next record.
They laughed at the time, but Sara really is thinking in those terms. Work on the next record "starts now."
Although in Tegan and Sara's world, work never really stops.
"Musically, I love Heartthrob. I personally think right now, there probably won't be a crazy left turn again," she said of the duo's next move. "It'll be more in the direction of what I think is intelligent, modern pop music, with maybe a little bit more of an electronic music feeling.
"Lyrically, there is big stuff that has happened to us in the past couple years, in our personal lives again," she added. "We're at that age. People are dying, people are getting sick, relationships, I think it's a big time in our lives.
"And I suspect the next record will be a big one for us."
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Special Hakkaisan Tasting…Wednesday, 1/30/08Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Interrupt your regular routine this chilly last week inJanuary with something that is certain to brighten it considerably…a special tasting of a selection of sake from the esteemed Hakkaisan brewery in Niigata.
We are honored and delighted to be visited by Hakkaisan's Ms. Kuniko Kurosawa this Wednesday evening, January 30 from 5 -7PM when she will be pouring their "Eight Peaks" Honjozo, Ginjo, and Junmai Ginjo (as well as a mysterious "surprise" sake).
We apologize for the last minute notice, but knew that you wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to meet Kurosawa-san and taste some of these prized nihon-shu from one of Japan's most highly regarded breweries! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow evening here at SAKAYA!
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GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy - The shipwreck saga that dominated their lives for the last 20 months is winding down — and residents of the Tuscan island of Giglio are waiting to see what the future will bring.
For months, tourists have flocked to this island to gawk at the giant, half-submerged cruise ship sprawled on its side just outside the tiny harbour. Hundreds of salvage workers have filled up Giglio's bars, restaurants and lodgings. Ferries from the mainland have arrived loaded with day-trippers.
Now that the Costa Concordia has been set upright in a daring engineering feat, the realization is sinking in: the crippled cruise ship eventually will be towed away and a whole new chapter of island life will begin.
It's true that the 300-meter (1,000-foot) long twisted steel hulk of the cruise ship isn't going anywhere soon. Its long-submerged side, muddied with slime and smashed in from lying on the rocky seabed since the Concordia struck a reef, now offers a new, striking sight to gawk at: that of a whole, albeit horribly deformed, ship.
But by late spring, if engineers' plans hold, the wreck will be towed to the mainland to be turned into scrap. Then many of Giglio's 1,400 year-round residents will have to re-invent much of what they have done for a living since that sorrowful night of Jan. 13, 2012, when the ship's captain steered it too close to the island's rocky coast and 32 people aboard perished.
While some islanders are looking for re-invention, others say all they need to do is return to the island's traditional way of life before the shipwreck.
"Giglio doesn't need to invent anything because Giglio is a pearl," said Tiziana Pavoni, owner of a portside cafe where salvage workers, thirsty and famished after their shifts on the 24/7 project, wolf down panini, drink a few beers and treat themselves to gelato.
"Giglio doesn't need any ship or anything else" to regain its reputation as a holiday destination, she said.
The island, set in an archipelago in pristine waters where dolphins play and fishing nets yield prized catches, lives off fishing in the winter, when ferries linking it to the mainland run infrequently. But come summer, residents rent out rooms in their simple homes along steep, hilly streets, owners fling open the shutters on hotels that shut down in mid-fall, and restaurant kitchens start bustling to keep up with the strong demand for pasta topped with freshly-caught seafood.
Giglio's mayor, Sergio Ortelli, was relieved that the island's time as a place for "eat-and-run" tourism was drawing to a close.
"This year we noted a tepid recovery" of tourism and "that is a good thing," Ortelli told The Associated Press. "We thought we were going to have the same poor results of last year in terms of tourism, but instead, the (increased) presence of tourists on the island makes it clear to us that tourism is bouncing back."
"Surely tourism will return to the same level we used to enjoy before this terrible tragedy," he said.
Before the shipwreck, that meant sold-out hotel rooms in the peak summer season. But many families who used to return year after year for the island's sand beaches and coves snubbed Giglio in the two summers after the shipwreck. Instead, hotels that normally would have closed for six months in the off-season did a booming business when salvage companies booked all their rooms for months at a time. Homes that would have stayed empty all winter rented out to the overspill.
Lodging and feeding some 500 salvage workers is no easy feat.
Angelo Pini, owner of the La Pergola di Demo hotel, said while most other hoteliers on the island kept their doors open for the crews during the winter, he made a personal choice to close as he always did. He said he was confident that when the Concordia is gone, Giglio's tourism will return to what it used to be.
"We will finally be able to use beaches and rocks that are beautiful and are not accessible now because of the Concordia shipwreck," Pini said.
Others are also looking forward to a Concordia-free future. They include the Di Cristina pastry and bread shop, a family-run business that has supplied the island's residents and guests with bread since 1959.
For the family, the shipwreck couldn't have happened at a worse moment. The bakery is proud of its focaccia bread stuffed with onions marinated for 12 hours. The summer before the Concordia collision it had opened a tiny storefront selling pizza by the slice, focaccia and local sweets like bread laced with sugar and raisins.
But the bigger-spending tourists who would splurge on fancy cakes were chased away by the macabre reminder of death and horror just outside the port, said Filippo Di Cristina, grandson of the bakery's founder.
Instead the island saw a sharp jump in the number of day tourists shuttling in from the mainland after an hour-long ferry ride.
"They get off the ferry and don't even turn the corner" from the dock and discover the bakery, he said. "They just go straight to see the ship" and then head back home.
As soon as dawn broke on Tuesday, islanders like Aldo Mattera hurried down to harbour, relieved that the ambitious project to set the Concordia upright had succeeded.
"It was time to remove the wreck, but maybe it should have been done sooner," he said.
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The first, of course, is the famous Gang of Four book on design patterns. Almost every programmer has heard of it, and it is considered the definitive work on software patterns. The second is less well known, but provides great insights and is quite well-written and easy to read. Each of them stands on its own as a great book of design knowledge, but together they can really improve the way you approach software design. Let's take a look at each one and then see how they fit together.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
The basic premise of this book is that software design has a number of recurring patterns that can be systematically described and cataloged. Once you know the names of the patterns, you can easily discuss them without having to describe the design in detail, and other software engineers will know what you're talking about. Since these patterns come up again and again, there is no need to redesign them from scratch. The implementations given in the book can be applied to new designs to quickly solve common problems with known solutions. Convenient!
The bulk of the book is the catalog of 23 design patterns. The authors go through every aspect of each pattern from why you would use it, how to apply it, what are the advantages and disadvantages of it, and a concise example of it. It's all very methodical, but I really got into it. I was amazed at how many patterns applied to the code base I'm working on. Factory Method, Adapter, Facade, Command, and the infamous Singleton were all present, and learning about them greatly improved my understanding of the code I was working on. I could categorize entire sections of code based on the pattern used, and as a result, I had a much more organized picture of the code in my head.
I could also see where things could be improved. After reorganizing one set of classes into the Strategy pattern, I was able to easily extend it with a ton of new functionality that was just a bunch of additional strategies. The next thing I want to tackle is the state machine that currently manages the overall execution of the program. Right now it's a giant switch statement that's just crying out to be refactored into the State pattern. It would be so much more maintainable and understandable. I love books that are immediately applicable to what I'm working on.
Object-Oriented Design Heuristics
This book addresses object-oriented design from a different angle. Instead of categorizing design problems and solutions into a set of patterns, it lays out a set of heuristics to guide you while making the nitty-gritty choices that go into designing software. Since they're more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules, the heuristics can sometimes be contradictory, and intentionally so. Through the heuristics, Riel brings out the tension inherent in all design trade-offs in software engineering.
Bringing this tension to the forefront really helps crystallize your understanding of the reasoning behind design choices, and why you would make one choice in this situation, but take the opposite route if the requirements changed slightly. There are rarely definitive answers, only shades of gray. Sometimes it's better to encapsulate behavior into lower level classes. Other times doing so would make things messier because the necessary data is spread out among numerous classes. In that case it might be better to move that behavior up a level and just access the data from the lower-level classes.
I'm making decisions like these constantly while programming, and having a well-thought out set of heuristics is invaluable. I can see much more clearly what the design trade-offs are, and my designs are much cleaner and more elegant as a result. I certainly have a long way to go on improving as a programmer, but this book has helped me suck less in the last year.
Putting Them Together
How do these books complement each other? They attack software design from different angles. Design Patterns gives you a collection of patterns to choose from when you're trying to organize a program at a higher level, either when doing the architectural design, or more likely when refactoring after you actually know how the program works and fits together. On the other hand, Object-Oriented Design Heuristics gives you a collection of heuristics to use when deciding where to put this data or that function, and is incredibly useful while actually writing code.
Patterns help organize in larger chunks while heuristics help refine and massage the design at a finer level of detail. Their interplay is similar to how a house is constructed. The patterns would be like the foundation and frame of the house. They provide its structure and support, and the rest of the house hangs on that structure. The heuristics are like the fit and finish of the house. The shelving, trim, paint, and floor coverings that give the house its look and feel. They're both necessary, and when they're both done right, you have a beautiful, functional home.
So how do you build a better house? Reading about these patterns and heuristics isn't enough. You have to put them into practice to really understand them and see how they work. The examples in the book are nice and clean and well thought out, but they likely won't transfer exactly into your own designs. Don't be afraid to experiment and see how they can be implemented in your own projects. At the same time, don't try to force them into a design that doesn't really need it. Patterns especially can be overused and abused if you're not careful, so don't over-engineer. Simpler is almost always better. If a particular pattern doesn't provide the benefits necessary to outweigh its complexity, use a simpler pattern or none at all. How will you know? The only way to find out is to give it a try.


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I saw the phrase, "on the debit side" and "on good part" as a contrast in the following sentence of New York Time's (December 17) article titled "Life Goes On, and ON," that deals with the opportunities and problems of longevity society:
"Is this (extended longevity) a good thing or a bad thing? On the debit side, there's the ... debit. The old-age safety net is already frayed. According to some estimates, Social Security benefits will run out by 2037; Medicare insurance is guaranteed only through 2024. These projected shortfalls are in part the unintended consequence of the American health fetish. ---
So what's the good part? Time spent with an elderly parent can offer an opportunity for the resolution of "unfinished business," a chance to indulge in last-act candor. ... I hear a lot about late-in-life bonding between parent and child."
Obviously "on the debit side" is used in the sense of "on the negative side," and "good part" for "on the positive side."
Can I use "credit side," the antonym of "debit side" instead of "on the positive side / on the good part" in the above sentence? I mean, can I rephrase the last line as "So what's the credit side? Time spent with an elderly parent can offer an opportunity..."? Or is the word, "credit side" only applicable to bookkeeping?


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Built for the gravel pit
A great construction truck needs high ground clearance. GRAS-G2 rear air suspension gives you 300 millimetres. As well as outstanding stability and driving comfort with any load.
Improved ground clearance
Spring members. Air bellows. Stabilisers. They've traditionally sat below the axle, in the line of fire for rocks and stones. Not any more. Our engineers turned the air suspension upside down and placed it on top of the drive axle. The result? You get the ground clearance of leaf suspension with the comfort and efficiency of air suspension.
Shorter overhang
The new suspension design leaves nothing behind the rear axle to interfere with tipping. So you're now able to tip directly into an asphalt paver.
Better traction, fewer vibrations
Optimised rear axle pressure on every axle means better traction. Further improvements can be made by manually adjusting axle load distribution. Air suspension also sends less vibration into the truck. The resulting comfort and higher average speed boost your productivity (an increase of 5–10 km/h in our tests). And reduced vibration damage means better uptime.
Stabilisers in bogie centre
Improved stabilisers play an important role in the new air suspension. Turned upside down and located centrally between axles, these now convey the forces of the road and the trailer into the stiffest part of the frame to improve roll stability.
Air suspension
Air suspension provides outstanding driving comfort and makes it possible to vary the ground clearance. No part of the suspension falls outside the rear tyre envelope (with 315/80R22.5 tyres). This makes it easier to adapt the chassis for applications such as asphalt layers or tippers.


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Former Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan spoke openly this week about his desire to bring Brett Favre back into the fold. Harlan was out of the picture when Favre's split with the team ruffled feathers, but the feud sticks with him.
That's not all that keeps Harlan up at night. Asked to list his deepest regret from those Packers days, Harlan cited his choice to name Mike Sherman to the dual role of head coach/general manager in 2001, following GM Ron Wolf's departure.
"I think it was the worst decision I made, quite honestly," Harlan told Green & Gold Today on Tuesday, via ESPNMilwaukee.com.
Harlan always believed coaching and GM duties should be kept separate, but he wrestled with the notion of replacing Wolf with an outsider. Sherman and Wolf had worked well together, and Harlan was reluctant to shake things up.
"I was concerned that if a new man came in from the outside, (Sherman) might have trouble getting along with him, (or) the new man might want to come in and want to totally change the scouting staff, which I thought was a capable young scouting staff. And so I decided to do something that I don't like to do -- give one man both jobs," Harlan said. "And (Sherman) didn't hurt us on the field -- we went 12-4, 12-4, 10-6, 10-6. (He) did a great job of coaching. But it got to the point when we started having problems with players that he almost seemed to be ignoring the team."
Harlan pointed to the long, contentious holdout of cornerback Mike McKenzie in 2004 as a breaking point. McKenzies' battle with the team left Sherman frazzled heading into the season, according to Harlan, who finally stripped the coach of his GM duties and named Ted Thompson to the role in 2005. No regrets there. Thompson is one of the game's premier personnel men and the Packers have a recent Super Bowl title to prove it.


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"I won't take any advise from someone unless I know their spiritual life." Her voice was stern, determined, with an unswayable undertone that made my fingertips grip my mouse tighter. There were a couple of empty tables between the couple and myself, yet even with the coffee grinder whirling and the chatter of baristas, I could hear her words clearly.
"I won't take any advise from someone unless I know their spiritual life."
I don't mean to be eavesdropping. There really is no excuse. As a writer who has taken several writing courses that encourages to observe the people, the stories happening in our ordinary spaces, I tend to 'tune' into conversations without a lot of effort. Mostly I pay attention to 'sound bites', clips of words that my imagination can expand on as well as voice inflections and speech patterns.
Sometimes though a conversation heightens all my senses.
I know I don't ever get the full-story.
But the words, the clips can cause me to pause enough to grab my pen or open Scrivener on my lap top.
"She's teaching about mindset and how most of our problems have to do with mindset…I won't take advise from anyone unless I know their Christian…."
"Even if a doctor says it's depression and gives advise how to deal with it but I won't take advise from her unless I know her spiritual direction…"
Later asking the Mexican barista…"I'm going to Mexico and want to teach these people about God…."
Leaving the cafe, commenting to her companion…"well I don't care…."
I don't hear the words clearly, and could be mistaken, but the tone is dismissive.
And a story idea begins to form.
Christian fiction writer, Ted Dekker, teaches that our character's journey in the stories we write can explore our own faith questions.
So I found myself typing out the questions…
What would happen if a Christian never took advise from someone they did not see as 'spiritual enough?' Is that obeying or disobeying God? Would our lives be richer or smaller?
Currently I do take advise from others that are not of my faith, my trust often secured by their expertise from academia, experience and/or referral. My physician, nutritional counsellors, professional fitness trainers to name a few.
However, it can be tough to know what information is really true, to take in and apply when it flies at us from so many directions like a snow squall.
Life can be complicated that way, can't it?
Recently my bible study led me to Paul's journey to Berea.
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17:11
And I pondered about the teachings of Jesus– would I have listened and accepted this new view being presented? Or been angry? Even dismissive?
Or eager like the Berean Jews?
Although they did not just take in Paul's word and believe.
These listeners also examined the Scriptures evaluating Paul's sermons for themselves so they could trust or dismiss his teachings.
And, I imagine, the many that became believers must have been quite delighted to come to the conclusion that is was all true!
As a result, many of them believed, as did a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. Acts 17:12
To even listen in the first place to Paul and Silas, they would have had an open-mind to these two teachers that wandered into town and into their place of worship.
They listened with eagerness AND discerning hearts, putting into practice Paul's teachings that we read in Colossians.
So see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world, rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:8
Carefully they examined Paul's words against the scriptures they'd been studying and knew to be true. I imagine, too, being already very familiar with scripture, they would have had the word hidden in their hearts as taught by Psalms.
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11
We are taught well how to evaluate spiritual teachings .
We are to be open-minded and eager to listen. However, we are to verify and evaluate comparing what we hear with with what we know is true–God's word in scriptures.
And the more we know the trust worthy source of The Word the more we are safeguarded against false-teachings.
All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
As for never taking advise from others, even doctors, that do not share our spiritual believes like the cafe lady I eavesdropped on…? Hmm… I may just follow Ted Dekker's advise and explore the concept through fiction! Do you think it would make a compelling story?
Lynn J Simpson, Author/Coach/Photographer at Inspiring Hope in You
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